Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . oes notunderstand the words. The poemis a sort of double allegory, forthe heroine represents not onlygoodness and beauty but alsoQueen Elizabeth. Even better than the shortpoems were the plays. The oldmystery plays went on far intoEHzabeths reign, though theywere no longer acted by priests,but by guilds, or companies oftradesmen. There were no books that were at all like thenovels of our time. It may be that life moved so rapidlywith its discoveries a
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . oes notunderstand the words. The poemis a sort of double allegory, forthe heroine represents not onlygoodness and beauty but alsoQueen Elizabeth. Even better than the shortpoems were the plays. The oldmystery plays went on far intoEHzabeths reign, though theywere no longer acted by priests,but by guilds, or companies oftradesmen. There were no books that were at all like thenovels of our time. It may be that life moved so rapidlywith its discoveries and its victories, and that Englishmenwere so eager and so enthusiastic that they could not besatisfied to listen to a story; they must see it acted out beforethem. As the age went on, the characters of the playsbecame more and more like real men and women. Therewere also changes in the manner of writing. Before this,most authors had felt that the lines of a play must rhyme,but Marlowe ridiculed the custom and wrote his plays inthe unrhymed verse that Shakespeare uses. A little later,Ben Jonson wrote not only many plays, but also a kind of. William Shakespeare 1558-1603J THE TUDOR SOVEREIGNS 153 drama called a masque. The masques had hardly any plot;but audiences enjoyed them because they were beautiful andpoetical, and because they had elaborate scenery, while theregular plays had scarcely any. Many authors wrote playsand exceedingly good ones, but the greatest of all theseauthors was Shakespeare, partly because he could use wordsso skilfully that no one seems able to improve upon his wayof expressing a thought, but chiefly because he knew betterthan any one else just how different persons would feel andact under different circumstances. One maker of plays wasalmost as good as he in one respect, and another in someother respect, but Shakespeare was greatest in all respects. SUMMARY The accession of Elizabeth was welcome to England, but the povertyof the crown, the three opposin
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